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David Moore (X)
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To space or not.... Aug 7, 2004

And for many other - well, practically all - aspects of writing European English (British English?), anyone here might care to cast a glance at the "English style guide" at

http://europa.eu.int/comm/translation/writing/style_guides/english/frame_index_en.htm

God luck, y'all....

David Moore
 
Walter Lockhart Ries (X)
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English authorities Aug 8, 2004

The authority for American English is The Chicago Manual of Style and for UK English, Oxford Style Manual.


Walter
 
Rolf Kern
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Never in German! Aug 17, 2004

I translate a lot from French into German, and there ist always a space before !, ?, : etc., which I throw out alltogether. I guess that in the French Version of Microsoft Word this space is put in automatically.
 
Cybele1996
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Not in English Sep 4, 2004

There should be no space after exclamation marks in English texts.

Mel.
 
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No spaces before or after punctuation marks in German! Oct 4, 2004

Sarah Downing wrote:

I've often seen extra spaces in German - within brackets (at the beginning and end of the bracket) and before colons. When translating the text into English, I always take out the spaces.

Good luck!

Sarah

Although some people type a space before and/or after a punctuation mark in German texts, this is incorrect. This mistake is very often found as a space before and after a dash, e.g., like in "EUR 27,00 / m2".


[Edited at 2004-10-04 10:32]
 
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Space between number and unit of measure is correct Oct 4, 2004

Charlotte Blank wrote:

I've often seen a space between the number and % in English - is this correct? I always take them off in German (where you definitely don't use them) but it would be interesting to know how this is handled in other languages.

BTW, Heinrich, it seems that this is NOT a minor issue;)

Happy week-end,

Charlotte

[Edited at 2004-07-19 09:07]

In all languages, there should always be inserted a (non-breaking) space between a number and the unit of measure.

I've found the following in the Internet:

Using SI Units of Measure
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3. Use one space between the quantity prefix and the unit of measure with the exception of symbols for plane angle expressions of degree, minute and second:

EXAMPLE
: 36 mm; 847 kg; 133 MHz; 5 A

EXAMPLE
: 39.85°11´2´

[Edited at 2004-10-04 10:46]
 
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